Northrop Grumman Australia · 22 hours ago
Principal Data Governance Engineer
United States-Virginia-Falls Church
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$104K/yr - $171K/yr
3+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading company in technological advancements, seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Engineer to join their Insights & Intelligence team. This role involves designing and implementing data governance capabilities to ensure data integrity and compliance across the enterprise data ecosystem.
Defense & Space
Responsibilities
Design and implement technical frameworks to support enterprise data governance, including metadata management, data lineage, data quality, and data classification
Support the implementation and management of a common data model
Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to Integrate governance controls into data ingestion, transformation, and consumption pipelines
Collaborate with data engineering to deploy automated data quality checks, monitoring, and issue remediation processes
Support data ownership and stewardship models by providing tooling and technical enablement
Collaborate with data architects, data engineers, security, privacy, and business stakeholders to ensure governance requirements are embedded into platform designs
Support regulatory, compliance, privacy, and risk requirements (e.g., PII identification, retention, access controls)
Define and enforce standards for data modeling, naming conventions, and metadata capture
Evaluate and onboard data governance, metadata, and quality tools as needed
Produce technical documentation, reference architecture, and implementation guidelines
Qualification
Required
Must have, at minimum, a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 5 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience
Must have hands-on experience implementing data governance capabilities within modern data platforms such as Databricks, through Unity Catalog
Must have strong SQL and Python skills and experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks
Familiarity with data governance concepts including data ownership, stewardship, lineage, metadata, and data quality
Experience integrating governance with CI/CD and DevOps practices
Preferred
Knowledge of privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, ITAR, SOX)
Experience with ontology-based or semantic data modeling approaches
Background in large-scale deployment of data Lakehouse such as Databricks
Good understanding of large enterprise systems such as Workday, SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase